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0. B. GODFREY. TYPE WRITING MACHINE CARD HOLDER.

Patented Nova 8, 1892 buzl zzeasea,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. GODFREY, OF MILFORD, ASSIGNOR TO THE LIBRARY BUREAU, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TYPE-WRlTlNG-MACHINE CARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,036, dated November8, 1892.

Application filed March 5, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. GODFREY, of Milford, county of Worcester,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inType-Writing-Machine Card-Holders, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification,likeletters and figures on the drawings representing likeparts.

Type-writing machines having banks of keyssuch as the Hammond,Remington, &c.-are now largely used in business places for a greatvariety of Work, chiefly, however, on thin paper, which is readilyadaptable to the usual feed-rollers of the machine; but all machinesreferred to are not well adapted to printing on stiff paper.

The object of my invention is to adapt typewriting machines havingfeed-rolls and banks of keys for the reception of stifi cards nowlargely used in libraries and business-houses for indexing work, wherebyit will not be necessary to bend the cards at all.

In accordance with my invention I have combined with the feed-rolls acard-holder to positively engage the bottom edge of and sustain the cardwithout bending in proper position with relation to the type-writingline of the machine. I shall preferably make the card-holder adjustablewith relation to the type-writing line, so as to adapt the holder tocards of different depth.

Figure 1 showsasuflicient portion of a typewriting machine withmyimprovements added 5 to enable my invention to be understood, and

Fig. 2 shows the card-holder removed.

The frame or yoke partAand the feed-rolls B (l, the type-carrier D, andthe throat E are common to the Hammond machine, and in practice, inconnection with these parts, will be employed a type-carrier and banksof keys, all as common to said machine, and such parts, being wellknown, need not be herein shown or further described, and it will alsobe understood that my invention to be described with slightmodifications maybe made applicable to other forms of type-writingmachines having banks of keys and rolls, so the use of Serial No.423,868. (No model.)

my card-holder is not to be limited to the Hammond machine.

My cardholder F in the form in which my invention is herein embodied ismade as a trough, the latter positively engaging the bottom edge of andsupporting the card G between the feed-rolls, the card, as shown,entering and resting on the trough-like holder without being bent. Theends of the holder have ears f, which have co-operating with themscrew-threaded rods g, on which are suitable nuts 2, which constituteholder-adjusting devices, whereby the holder may be adjusted verticallywith relation to the type-writing line, which is supposed to bein aboutthe line 0:, Fig.1. The adjustment of the holder on the rods enables aline to be printed on cards at a uniform distance from their lower orupper edges.

The upper ends of the screw-rods have, as shown, holes 3 to receivesuitable studs or pivot-screws 4, the nuts 2 being vertically adjustableon said rods 9.

Having described my invention, What I claim as novel, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a type-Writer and its feed-rolls, of, acard-holder bent to positively engage the bottom edge of and sustainwithout bending a card between the feedrolls and thereby positively holdthe same in place to be printed upon, substantially as described.

2. The feed-rolls of the type-writer and the card-holder to positivelyengage the bottom edge of and present to the type-printing line a stifiunbent card, combined with adjusting devices to adjust the card-holderwith relation to the type-writing line toward or from it, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

oHARLEs ReoDFREY.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, FRANCES M. NOBLE.

